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Thx Tim, be looking forward to real ski flying.

I appreciate that there are obviously not too many ski pilots out there but anyway --It is so sad that Flightsim does not let you land on frozen sea with skis but I found a way to fool it. Fly with Amphib floats and land on the ice not the runway and then you can even put the wheels back down for take off if it does not want to move. If you land on the "ice" with skis it triggers a "landed in water" crash, but you can fool it. I just happen to like landing off airport. But the Rothera Base is a fun little add-on with an excellent manual. A friend of mine was based in the area a few years back and flew the Twin Otter for Bradley Air. (Canadian)

The ice situation is very weird, last night took off in a 172 on wheel skis from Cambridge Bay and landed on what looked like solid sea ice only to have it recorded as a crash and "went into water". Please Microsoft and Asobo has global warming seriously affected MSFS2020??? I have submitted a ticket to Asobo but no response. Are there no more ski flyers out there that actually like landing on frozen lakes or the sea? In real flying it was one of my greatest pleasure flying on skis or even wheels on frozen lakes.

Finally yesterday flew up in the Arctic a couple of flights with real time weather and the lakes and sea were frozen, landed even a King Air on the sea ice no problem. Not sure what the issue might be with MSFS and ice, but hopefully now can do some real ski flying.

Have done a few re-installs before and no major issues, this time I had some issues in my version so decided to do anew re-install. Going throguh the XBox app but I only use the Windows 10 and WPC version of FS Premium Deluxe. It gets to 99% and says errtor-view progress and then goes nowhere, no mother solution offered. Anyone run into re-install issues like this. Is there an alternative download?? JD

Ah but we all wear Bose noise cancelling headsets when we fly real planes now don't we?, so the old noisy days of an open cockpit Boeing Stearman are gone!!

Don't need to repost, answered on other post

Yea--on my 320 no GPWS just altitude callouts which is fine. I hate those PULLUP PULLUP interventions. J

Yea Steve, the Icon might work, but not the same huh! I flew about 200 hours on a Citabria 7GCBC in northern BC and used to have fun in FSX on skis and want the same here, not an unreasonable request I would have thought. We shall see, a Zendesk request has been sent.

Roger--I think that would be absolutely great, I do most of my flying in BC, Yukon and Alaska where I did most of my real flying. Nelson BC CZNL is one of the most interesting airports to fly into in Sim or for real and if you want up to date photos of that airport I would get them. I had a guy in Germany do a great job on CZNL as freeware for FSX, I took the photos, even had my own car in the parking lot. John

Have submitted to Zendesk we'll see.

Tried a wheel-ski plane took off from CYCB on the runway flew over the now frozen sea and landed to be told I just crashed into the water. time to go to Zendesk I guess. No other ski flyers??

Just tried again, went to Cambridge Bay NU and also crashed into water in the ocean. used to live there and believe me it is all frozen at this time of the year. MSFS has the daylight hours Ok (minimal at this time) but no sea ice!!!

Just did a flight in a wheel ski plane at Burns Lake and set the outside temp to about minus 40, this resulted in open water and of course not a good ski landing. Anyone doing winter flying on lakes successfully? I want to go ice fishing!!

You may find the easiest way is to download the Xbox app and do it all through that--it does not mean you need the Xbox version to be doing that.

Thanks Tim, I will check it out.

Because I am lazy and because I know there are many very knowledgeable pilots on flightsim I am looking for a quick answer to the following question. Ah yes I could just go and experiment but if someone else has done it saves me time. Can I organize the community folder into subfolders e.g. Jet aircraft, Piston Aircraft, helicopters, scenery and maybe even subfolders, and still, have it work OK?? So that way with updates I can remove or add blocks at a time and check if MSFGS is still working OK? Had anyone got a well organized community folder of the add-ons they use?? Respectfully--John

The RemoteFlight app for iPhone and iPad is really quite amazing for the value. http://remoteflight.net. if you go on the IPAD or phone get the whole bundle 4 or 5 apps in one, setup is straightforward. John

Just experimented loading some ingamepanels into the official-one store folder accessed from developer-virtual folders and it works fine whereas it do not in the normal community folder--very weird but it works.

Also it is possible update 7 has "hidden" the Official and Community folders and they are available through the Developers option under virtual files. I have found I needed to add some files into the One Store option not the Community folder. This is a bit of a mystery. It remains to be seen whether this will cause problems.

I found some strange things with the new update i.e. that there is a totally hidden place where the community folder hides so in effect there are two community folders now and you need to find the "Official" folder and the Asobo planes, since the update and Windows 11 I have found it very confusing and some of my community additions are not showing up on MSFS2020. So in effect you are adding them to the wrong "Community" folder. I will research a little more and let you know if I find it again, I did locate it once.

@Galiden, good comments and interesting, of course you are talking Ground Speed (wind effect) versus airspeed and that is the problem with this model that the airspeed is barely over 80kts hardly above take-off speed. The stats on the real plane are as follows Performance Maximum speed: 213 km/h (132 mph, 115 kn) Cruise speed: 130 km/h (81 mph, 70 kn) (loiter speed, 40% power) Stall speed: 108 km/h (67 mph, 58 kn) outboard flaps up Never exceed speed: 259 km/h (161 mph, 140 kn) Range: 1,056 km (656 mi, 570 nmi) at 130 km/h (81 mph; 70 kn) (45-minute reserves) Endurance: 8 h (at loiter speed) Service ceiling: 4,275 m (14,026 ft) Rate of climb: 4.1 m/s (810 ft/min) Considering it was powered with a Lycoming O-540 it has a most interesting performance, my own Male 235 had a range of stall in the 40 knot range to cruise at 140Knots on the same engine. So this weird plane was built to fly a long time very slow and that partly explains why the cruise speed is barely above the stall speed which is why it is really quite hard to fly in Flightsim. So Grover2005 you are right but it can be flown. Regards--John

What take off and cruise speeds were you getting??

ps--I did fly Republic Seabees a few times in the real world, and we used to joke about stats, take off 60, climb 60, stall 60 and land if you can manage it. It was a fun plane but did have those narrow margins.

It is one of the hardest planes to fly--margin between take off speed and climb and stall is very small so all speeds will be around 60-75 but it will get off climb and get around the countryside and land OK. If the real one is like that I would not be too inclined to fly it however. So full power and a positive lift and be careful with the trim. It does actually fly but it feels like you are flying a beluga whale.